Help Improve Magna Carta Project Five-Star Profiles (Post #6 - December 2019) [closed]

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There are close to 800 Five-Star Profiles under the Magna Carta Project’s purview. We’d appreciate your help to expand these profiles to make them even more informative, appealing and accessible to the public while also putting WikiTree’s best face forward on Google. Using the project’s checklist as a guide, we will be focusing on the following profiles this month: 

Maj. Lawrence Smith Sr. (1629-c1700) of Virginia: This is a Gateway Ancestor that hasn't had a trail developed to a surety baron. Are you up for that task? If so, sign up and become his Gateway Guardian! If not, his profile itself needs some work: add inline citations to Richardson works; source clean-up (from gedcom import); add links to wife/children; check dates, sources and links.

Sir Thomas de Mowbray (1366-1399): needs post-merge clean-up and sources checked, inline citations, and profile re-review per MCP’s checklist above. This profile was in a trail that was reviewed in 2014 and the Magna Carta Project section needs updating.

Caryl volunteered to work on Matilda (Bruce) de Isaac (1303-1353): needs Richardson citations, profile re-review per Magna Carta Project’s checklist above and a Magna Carta project section added.

DONE! Thanks to Terri SwiftRichard Randolph (1621-1678): US PRESIDENTS project is co-PM (ancestor of Thomas Jefferson). This profile needs a lot of work: source check, inline citations added and profile re-review per MCP’s checklist above, addition of a Magna Carta project section ... etc.

DONE! Alice (FitzAlan) Holland (1350-1416): Add Magna Carta project section, profile re-review, general clean-up

If you’re interested, please answer below. Affiliate and Badged Magna Carta Project members should sign up on the project's Member Check-In Page and see the Five Star Profile Team Page for direction. Non-Magna Carta Project members, please answer this post with the profile ID you’d like to work on. Your use of sourcing from our list of Reliable Sources is appreciated. Feel free to contact me with questions. Any assistance you can give is valuable and welcomed. Thank you.

closed with the note: Overtaken
in Requests for Project Volunteers by Traci Thiessen G2G6 Pilot (297k points)
closed by Michael Cayley

7 Answers

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WikiTree says Alice (FitzAlan) Holand is my 17th great-grand, so I'll take on the update of her profile.

Cheers, Liz
by Liz Shifflett G2G6 Pilot (639k points)
Hooray!! Thank you Liz!
woo-hoo! just posted the 100% sticker as a comment for her. Just need to check back next week & remove PMs who don't post that they want to stay a manager.
Great!! Thank you so much!!
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Traci, I'd be happy to help on any of them by cleaning up the formatting - gedcom junk, inline sources, etc.  The only problem is I'm not pre-1700.  If you would like to set up a free space page, put the content of the text box in it, and let me know then I can fix it there, then you can copy/paste it back to the profile and put another one there for me.
by Gaile Connolly G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
We'd love your help, Gaile! Thank you so much for volunteering!! I'll send you an email with a link.
Traci, all done with the one you gave me - ready for another, unless you want me to do more on the first one.  I sent email listing what I did and didn't do - you may want me to do some of the "didn'ts", but I need instruction on those - my philosophy is like the Hippocratic oath - first, do no harm.
Excellent work Gaile!
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Matilda (Bruce) de Isaac is a first cousin nth times removed.  I would like to work on her profile. "Royal Ancestry" is a gift from "Santa" wrapped under my Christmas tree.  Would it be alright to get started on her profile and do the Richardson lookups after Christmas day?   

by Caryl Ruckert G2G6 Pilot (207k points)
Absolutely! Thank you for your help!
+8 votes

Terri Swift is interested in helping on Richard Randolph - thank you Terri :-)

by Michael Cayley G2G6 Pilot (234k points)
Thank you Terri!
+11 votes
Will work on Thomas Ludlow's 5-star profile
by Peggy Moss G2G6 Mach 2 (26.7k points)
Thanks Peggy!
+9 votes

Hi! I know it's January now, but I'm working on Lawrence Smith (got sucked in by [this post]).

by Liz Shifflett G2G6 Pilot (639k points)
Thank you!!!
Took forever, but I'm finally done with Lawrence!
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Randolph-13 is done. :) I'd like to take another one on, Traci.

Terri
by Terri Swift G2G6 Mach 2 (24.2k points)
TYVM and nice work, Terri! Let me know which one you'd like to work on.
The profile of his brother, Henry Randolph-112 is on the 5-star list ... would you like to take that one on? It is already sourced to Richardson, but could use a little expansion.
I had a little help, Traci, but I sure enjoyed the process and getting to know Randolph-13.  I'll be happy to work on Henry next.  I cannot figure out how to get the info needed into that table you have to show what everyone is working on.  

Terri
I added you to the list as working on Henry. THANK YOU!!
You are welcome!

Terri

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